* *Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature (Liverpool University Press 0-85323-604-6, Jul 99, £14.95, xii+268pp, tp, cover by Frances Dorsey) Critical work on how utopian literature is always affected (distorted) by the social psychology of its author, and why much recent utopian literature is by women. A hardcover edition (-594-5, £32.00) was announced but not seen.

* _Omega: The Last Days of the World (University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books 0-8032-6898-X, Mar 99 [Feb 99], $14.95, 287pp, tp, cover by R. W. Boeche) Reprint (Cosmopolitan 1894) apocalyptic history of the future of the universe by the famous French astronomer, originally published in French as La fin du monde (1893). Introduction by Robert Silverberg. Order from University of Nebraska Press, 312 North 14th St, PO Box 880484, Lincoln NE 68588-0484; 800-755-1105.

* _Star Trek: How Much for Just the Planet? (Pocket 0-671-03859-1, Aug 99 [Jul 99], $3.99, 253pp, pb) [Star Trek: Worlds Apart] Reissue (Pocket 1987) Star Trek novelization, repackaged as a classic Star Trek novel and named Book 2 of Worlds Apart. This has a new ISBN and indicates first printing. Copyrighted by Paramount Pictures.

* *The Lost Regiment #8: Men of War (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45770-6, Dec 99, $6.99, 316pp, pb, cover by Sanjulian) [Lost Regiment] Military SF novel, eighth in the series about Civil War soldiers transported into an alternate world.

* *Arthur the Bear of Britain (Green Knight Publishing 1-56882-102-6, Mar 99 [Jun 99], $14.95, 350pp, tp, cover by Randy Gallegos) Historical Arthurian novel, with a new foreword by Raven Frankland and a new introduction by Raymond H. Thompson, along with the original foreword by D. Lloyd George and afterword by the author. This is dated 1998, but not seen until now. First US edition (McDonald 1944 as The Bear of Britain). Order from Green Knight c/o Chaosium, 950-A 56th St, Oakland CA 94608.